Huntsville gazette., 1887-10-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

years editor of the United Presbyterian,
died at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Nth.
HE st. Louis Browns sustained another
defeat at the hands of the Detroits in the
worlds base ball championship series at
New York, on the 18th. The score was 8
to O.; total score to date, Detroits, four
games; st. Louis, two
JUDGE II. L. ELLETT, who made the well
coming address to President Cleveland at
Memphis, Tenn, on the 18th, dropped
dead on the stand almost immediately V
afterward. He was eigl,tv years of age.
The incident brought the festivities of the
occasion TO an almost abrupt termination.
THERE were three new cases of yellow
fever at Tampa, Fla, on the 10Th, and
two deaths.
THE majority of the Paris newspapers
appear to consider General Boulanger
more sinned against than sim ing" in the
War Office scandal sensation.
Mr.. BALFoUR has obtained the consent
of the British Cabinet to totally suppress
the National League in Dublin, and, if he
should see fit, to extend his pronibitory
operations TO the whole of Ireland.
FRED DOUGLAS predicts that the Chinese
will soon overrun the United States and
take the place in the popular mind that
has been and is now occupied by the
negro.
CRIMINAL proceedings have been d.
rected to be instituted against Jesse Lee
Hall, agent for the kiowa, Comanche and
Wichita Indians in tho Indian Territory,
upon charges of malfeasance in Office
TWENTY clerks in the New York custom
house, drawing s., 400 salary each, who
have failed in two separate Civil-Service
examinations, are to be dropped from the
rolls.
THE trouble at the Pipestoue (Minn.) In
dian reservation has been settled by the
white settlers agreeing to be moved. They
also sign an agreement to stay OF the res
ervation.
DR.. j. L. N. CURRY, United States Min
lister to Spain, sailed on the 10Th with his
family for his post of duty. He will spend
q few days in Paris before proceeding to
Madrid.
REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, editor of the
Christian Union, has been chosen tenn
porary pastor of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn.
AT municipal election in Queenstown,
Ireland, on the 18th, five Unionists defeat
ed their Nationalist opponents by over
whelming majorities. The result caused
general astonishment.
THE British Government has decided to
hold police inquiry into the conduct Of
Magistrate Irwin and Inspector Brown
rigg at Mitche!lstown, Ireland.
JOSEPH SCHLEM1ER, the Jersey City
IN. J.) wife murderer, was sentenced on
the 15til to be hanged December IA next.
SECRETARY OF STATE CHAPLEAU of
Canada openly repudiates the idea of
commercial union between that govern
ment and the United States.
SEVERAL Canadians are said to be pos
SCISSORS of some of the decorations Of
French orders,9 and a few are openly
charged with having purchased them.
REV. CnAs. a. BERRY, of the Queen
Street Congregational Church, Wolver-
hampton, England, preached in Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, on the 16th. He was
greeted at both morning and evening
services by large congregations, who
seemed to be pleased with his efforts.
CHAs McCRAY, assistant yardmaster
of the Vandalia road, was found dead in
a freight car at Terre HaGte, Ind, on the
18th. The supposition is that he was muir
dered the day previous His skull was
crushed and he had been shot twice in the
GREAT anxiety prevails over the condi-
ton Of the Princesses Louise and Maude
of Wales. who are i'll with measles in
Copenhagen. The ages. Of the princesses
are respectively twenty and eighteen
years, and tine dangerous character of the
disease is therefore enhanced
The American Secular Union began its
sessions in Chicago on the 18th.
Of fba prnt E'niGnO-
pal Church convened at Louisville, Ky,
on the 18th.
THE excitement over the French War
Office scandal is dying out at Paris.
THE International Encampment Asso-
citation of Chicago has been placed in the
hands of q receiver.
AT Lake Edward. in Canada, on the 1lth,
three boarders perished in burning
boarding house.
SEVERAL of the murderers and robbers
of Rev. Thos p. Ryan, at Walton, W. Va,
have been lynched by a mob.
THE Shakespeare fountain donated by
Geo. w. Childs, of Philadelphia, was un-
vailed at Stratford upon Avon, England,
on the 18th.
THE great coal strike in the Lehigh Val
ley region seems as fer from settlement as
ever. and trouble is anticipated.
THE well-known Kent House at Chau-
tauuua Lake, n. ", with a dozen cottages
adjoining, was destroyed by fire on the
17th.
NATIoEALIsT meetings were held on the
10th throughout Ireland. \ big one at
Woodford completely outwitted the mill
tary and police.
A SCHOOL, HOUSE in course Of construc-
tion in New York City fell in on the 18th,
killing a dozen worhmen, and injuring
several others.
THE London Standard publishes state
ment showing that Count Mitkiewicz Sc
cured his Chinese concessions through
Misrepresentation, which, when dis
covered, led to annulment.
The Pros ident and Mrs. Cleveland were
accorded fattering reception at Nash
VIII, Tenn, on the 18th, and later at Chat
tanooga, and then went on to Atlanta,
where they arrived at 1888 p. m.
CALEB ". WEST, Governor Of Utah, in
his annual report submitted to the Secre-
tarv of the Interior, estimates the popu-
lation of the Territory at 100000 and the
assessed valuation OF property at $780,
365, ,001
Roscoe CoNKLTNG has been asked TO
argue the case of ths Virginia state Off
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